The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga, Guercino, ca. 1650

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The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga, ca. 1650, Oil on canvas, 140 x 106 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna), Luigi Gonzaga (born 1568) was the eldest son of the marquis of Castiglione. He resigned the marquisate in favor of his younger brother, and in 1585 joined the Jesuit novitiate in Rome. He devoted himself to the care of the poor until he died of the plague in 1591

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